60NYT > Personal Healthtopics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/columns/personalhealth/index.html?s=closestA collection of Personal Health columns published in The New York Times.Copyright 2014 The New York Times Companyen-usTue 03 Mar 2015 14:23:51 -0500http://static01.nyt.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gifNYThttp://www.nytimes.comAdvice From Life’s Graying Edge on Finishing With No Regretshttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/health/elderly-experts-share-life-advice-in-cornell-project.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/health/elderly-experts-share-life-advice-in-cornell-project.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/01/10/science/10BROD/10BROD-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>A new book called “30 Lessons for Living” draws from interviews with more than 1,000 older Americans from different economic, educational and occupational strata.By JANE E. BRODYTue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/health/elderly-experts-share-life-advice-in-cornell-project.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssGetting on With Life After a Partner Dieshttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/health/15brod.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/health/15brod.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2010/06/15/science/SUB-Brod/SUB-Brod-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>Every year millions of Americans are thrust into the role of widow and widower, forced to learn how to cope on their own.By JANE E. BRODYTue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/health/15brod.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssOften, Time Beats Therapy for Treating Griefhttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/health/personal-health-often-time-beats-therapy-for-treating-grief.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssIt is commonly assumed in this therapy-oriented world that nearly every grieving person can benefit from bereavement counseling or therapy. But both the experience of psychologists who provide bereavement services and a thorough review of the...By JANE E. BRODYTue, 27 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/health/personal-health-often-time-beats-therapy-for-treating-grief.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssGay Families Flourish as Acceptance Growshttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/health/personal-health-gay-families-flourish-as-acceptance-grows.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssKeith Lee Grant and Daniel Tamulonis had been partners for 15 years when Mr. Grant decided their self-focused life was too empty -- that they had much more to give. So eight years ago this interracial New York couple adopted a 2-day-old infant...By JANE E. BRODYTue, 01 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/health/personal-health-gay-families-flourish-as-acceptance-grows.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss'Masters' Show How to Get High on Life Without Abusing Alcoholhttp://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/health/personal-health-masters-show-how-to-get-high-on-life-without-abusing-alcohol.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssAs with almost all troublesome behaviors that need changing -- be it losing weight, stopping smoking or starting to exercise -- the trick in overcoming alcohol abuse is not so much in the start-up as in the continuation. It sometimes takes years and...By JANE E. BRODYTue, 24 Apr 2001 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/health/personal-health-masters-show-how-to-get-high-on-life-without-abusing-alcohol.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssAn Author Explores 222 Paths to Sobrietyhttp://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/17/health/personal-health-an-author-explores-222-paths-to-sobriety.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe press kit for Anne M. Fletcher's new book, ''Sober for Good'' (Houghton-Mifflin, $25), states, ''Sometimes one book can make a difference.'' After reading the book, I could not agree more strongly. In it, Ms. Fletcher, a health and medical...By JANE E. BRODYTue, 17 Apr 2001 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/17/health/personal-health-an-author-explores-222-paths-to-sobriety.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA Matter of Compromise and Acceptancehttp://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/15/health/personal-health-a-matter-of-compromise-and-acceptance.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss''I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.'' The title of this long-running off-Broadway show sums up the source of most marital problems. All too often, the very characteristics that initially attracted partners to one another or the disturbing...By JANE E. BRODYTue, 15 Feb 2000 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/15/health/personal-health-a-matter-of-compromise-and-acceptance.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTrying to Cope When a Partner or a Loved One Is Chronically Depressedhttp://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/06/science/personal-health-trying-cope-when-partner-loved-one-chronically-depressed.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssIT is not at all easy to live with and love a person who is chronically depressed. Stress, conflicts, arguments and misunderstandings are far more common in close relationships with depressed people, and depression and the sexual problems that...By Jane E. BrodyTue, 06 Jan 1998 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/06/science/personal-health-trying-cope-when-partner-loved-one-chronically-depressed.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssDespite the Despair of Depression, Few Men Seek Treatmenthttp://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/30/science/personal-health-despite-the-despair-of-depression-few-men-seek-treatment.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssHOW can a man who has ''got it all'' -- a top job, financial security, a loving wife and children -- become depressed? Mike Wallace, the news correspondent who is co-editor of ''60 Minutes,'' addresses that question as he discusses his own depression...By Jane E. BrodyTue, 30 Dec 1997 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/30/science/personal-health-despite-the-despair-of-depression-few-men-seek-treatment.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss